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connected bearings and are driven by cut gear- 

 ings ; the tall spindles are opposite to and lined 

 with tbe head spindles, and bave both horizontal 

 and right-angle adjustments ; the cutter head 

 carriage is thoroughly gibbed to the main frame; 

 automatically engaged and disengaged frictions 

 start and stop the feed ; the cutter head and 

 guide-roll frame vibrates in a path corresponding 

 to the shape of the model ; both right and left 

 hand cutters are provided to feed both ways : 

 there are Ave changes of feed from one-eighth 

 inch to three eighths inch, with intervals of one- 

 sixteenth inch, and at the end of cut the feed 

 is automatically released for the next cut. 



The machine requires one and a half horse 

 power to operate, and occupies a floor space of 

 34x86 inches. A descriptive circular can be 

 obtained from the manufacturer upon request. 



Muskegon's "Sawdust" 



Who among those who lived in Muskegon, 

 Mich., the "Queen Lumber City of the World," in 

 the late seventies and early eighties does not 

 remember the "Sawdust" and the dump carts 

 that were constantly arriving, discharging their 

 contents and departing for another load? 



Many acres were covered with the refuse from 

 the mills — sawdust, bark, edgings, slabs, etc. 



Neither are the old-timers likely to forget 

 the fires that used to break out occasionally 

 in this district, which burned for weeks, despite 

 the best efforts of the fire department. 



In our own day sawdust is too valuable a 

 by-product to waste in this wholesale fashion. 

 It is used to run the plant, furnishing all 

 the fuel needed, and enabling the mill to make 

 a handsome profit from the sale of the slabs, 

 edgings and blocks. Of course, this usually 

 necessitates the installation of some device like 

 the Gordon hollow blast grate, which prevents 

 the sawdust from settling compactly on the 

 grate and causes it to burn freely. The manu- 

 facturers, the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Com- 

 pany of Greenville, Mich., certainly performed 

 a valuable service for manufacturers of lumber 

 when they placed this grate on the market. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Rib Lake Lumber Company is running 

 two shifts at its plant at Rib Lake, Wis. It is 

 cutting hardwood exclusively and its mill will 

 undoubtedly be run continuously until midsum- 

 mer. 



O.'L. Bennett is planning the erection of a 

 saw .and planing mill and box and spoke factory 

 at Norwood, La. 



A new concern at Asheville, N. C. is the W. 

 T. llill Piauo Company, incorporated by W. T. 

 Hill and others with a capital stock of .^100,000. 



The Minnesota Woodenware Company will 

 double the capacity of its plant at Cohasset, 

 Minn, ., ' 



Detroit, Mich., is the location of the new 

 Wayne Cabinet Company, incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000. 



B. 11. Cooley will engage in the manufacture 

 of wood novelties, boxes, crates, etc.. at Cam- 

 bell'^ Port, Wis. The business will be operated 

 under the style of the Wood Products Company. 



A new concern at Oklahoma City. Okla., is 

 the Miller Walnut Company, which will' operate 

 a sawmill, manufacturing walnut lumber. 



John W. Henniger of Chilhowie. Va., has re- 

 cently closed a deal with C. C. English of Bris- 

 tol, representing the heirs of the late George 

 D. Taylor, for a tract- of G,000,000 feet of tim- 

 ber in Happy Valley, Carter County, Tenn. The 

 consideration was $40,060. The timber on the 

 property consists principally of oak and poplar 

 of excellent quality and Mr. Taylor announces 

 (hat he wlU Install at once a mill to develop the 



property. The mill will be of large size and up- 

 to-date in character and will be located on the 

 East Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad. 



The A. WycUoff & Son Company has recently 

 started to manufacture water-pipe from cypress, 

 at its new factory at Alexandria, La. The con- 

 cern has been turning out a thousand feet of 

 water-pipe of all sizes per day. As soon as 

 electric lighting can be installed, both day and 

 night shifts will be run. Orders have been 

 booked for pipe to supply several towns in Okla- 

 homa and Texas. The town of Prior, Okla., is 

 installing seven miles of pipe manufactured by 

 this concern. It is claimed that wooden pipe 

 has a longer period of efficiency than the com- 

 mon iron type. All lengths and sizes are manu- 

 factured, varying from two to eight feet in 

 length, and from two to forty-eight inches in 

 diameter. The construction is similar to that 

 of hollow wooden columns. 



Webster & Whipple, prominent wholesale con- 

 cern with headquarters in the Lumber Exchange, 

 Minneapolis, announce that they bave recently 

 added a hardwood department to their business. 

 Heretofore, they had made a specialty of factory 

 stock, although catering also to the yard trade 

 of the retail dealer. For the present the con- 

 cern will confine itself to northern hardwoods, 

 although later it is possible that It will also 

 handle southern woods. W. II. Kemper. Jr., 

 will have charge of the hardwood end of the 

 business. He was formerly with the Mason-Don- 

 aldson Lumber Company at Ilhinelander, Wis., 

 and has a wide acquaintance among the hard- 

 wood trade of that territory. 



The Birch Boom & Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new concern which recently started 

 operations at Glendon, W. Va. The officers are 

 J. C. Remage, president ; R. H. Pembroke, secre- 

 tary, and S. Wiseman, treasurer. They own 

 about 2.000,000 feet of oak, hemlock and pop- 

 lar, and also have access to twenty-five or thirty 

 million feet of timber on adjacent property, so 

 that they are well supplied with material to 

 run their mill, which has a daily capacity of 

 20,000 feet. 



The Tennessee Lumber Company was recently 

 Incorporated with .foO.OOO capital stock to deal 

 in and manufacture hardwood and other lumber. 

 The company is said to be in possession of a 

 good tract of timber on which its mill will be 

 erected. The incorporators are T. B. Johnson. 

 George W. Killebrew, Johnson Bransford, A. H. 

 Robinson and Robert Lusk. 



The Uighland Lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated at Ironton, O., with $30,000 capital 

 stock. C. A. Uutsinpillar and others are named 

 as the incorporators. 



The Oscar Gartner Company, exporter of hard- 

 wood and pitch pine, which for years has been 

 located at New Orleans. La., will move to Gal- 

 veston. Tex., shortly. Officials of the company 

 state that this change is being made because 

 the wharves at New Orleans are so often con- 

 gested that the company's shipments cannot be 

 cared for promptly, thus necessitating increased 

 charges for cars in which the lumber has to re- 

 main stored until wharf space can be secured. 

 The company expects to be established in its 

 new location early next month. A new wharf 

 is being built, primarily for the lumber interests 

 of New Orleans, which it is expected will be 

 completed about the end of April. 



Iloshall & McDonald Brothers, with headquar- 

 tci* in tbe Hibernia Bank Building, New Orleans, 

 have purchased additional timber at Eola, La., 

 whore their mill is located. This will give tbe 

 concern a three years' supply for its sawmill, 

 Avhich was put into operation February 7. Tbe 

 equipment of the plant consists of an eight-toot 

 ■ band mill which cuts 25.000 feet a day. The 

 company turns out rough lumber only. The 

 timber on the property recently purchased eou- 

 .sists princlimlly of oak, ash and cypress. 8Ud 

 Is estimated to cut 15,000,000 feet. 



The Panama-American Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Peoria. 111., which owns a 75,000-acre 

 tract of mahogany timber in Panama, recently 

 inirchased tbe mill operated at Panther, W. Va., 

 by the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company and 

 shipped it to Panama, where the concern is ' 

 building a large and up-to-date mill to cut a 

 large tract of timber. The mill just purchased 

 was originally built by Saginaw. Mich., capital- 

 ists and later leased by the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company. The mill was rebuilt: a number of 

 limes, having had several fires. 



The Morris Broom Company has been organ- 

 ized with a capital stock of .fu.OOO at Rives. Ky. 

 J. II. Shore, B. J. Wade and others are in- 

 terested. 



A tract of five acres of land has been pur- 

 chased by Messrs, Hall & Polk of Troy. Tenn.. on 

 which will be erected a mill to cut hickory. 



Work on a building at Dalton, Ga.. to be used 

 as a hub and spoke factory will begin shortly 

 by the M. C. Blanchard Company of Spring 

 City, Tenn. 



Fire which destroyed the curtain pole factory 

 of the Edward Roos Company at Paducah. Ky., 

 damaged property worth $44,000. The loss was 

 well covered by insurance. 



The Perkins Land & Lumber Company is a 

 new concern at Memphis, Ark. L. E. Brown is 

 president of the company, which is capitalized 

 at .112.5,000. 



The M. B. Farrin Lumber Company recently 

 increased its capital stock from $500,000 to 

 $600,000. This is one of the largest hardwood 

 institutions at that important hardwood center, 

 Cincinnati, O. 



The R. S. Cor.vell Company, well-known ship- 

 pers of spruce, hemlock and hardwood lumber 

 and red cedar siding and shingles, with head- 

 quarters at Newark, N. J., has opened a branch 

 office at Halifax. Nova Scotia. 



The Lally Column Company is a new concern 

 at Chicago. It has $100,000 capital. 



The American Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized by R. F. Benson and others at Madison. 

 Ind. The company has a capital of $10,000. 



J. A. Mann of Burnsides, Ky., Is contemplat- 

 ing the purchase of the Smith lumber plant at 

 Pullerton, Ky. This he expects to convert into 

 a spoke and rim factory. Mr. Mann has a large 

 plant at Burnsides. 



The Carriage Woodstock Company of Owens- 

 boro, Ky., is planning the erection of a two- 

 story addition to its plant to be devoted to the 

 manufacture of automobiles. 



Rapid progress is being made on the mill being 

 erected by the Diamond Lumber Company at 

 , Green Bay, Wis. The plant will be equipped 

 with two 14" band mills and one 12" perpen- 

 dicular resaw. as well as shingle and lathe ma- 

 chinery. 



II. E. Shadel is one of the incorporators of 

 the Morgan Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany recently organized at Charleston, W. Va., 

 with $100,000 capital stock. 



The Vermont Butter Tub Company, Barton. 

 Vt., has been organized by B. W. Chandler of 

 Oak Park. 111.. C. T. Hall. Montgomery Center. 

 Vt., and others. The capital stock is $40,000. 



The T. U. T. Motor Company has been organ- 

 ized at Detroit. Mich., with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. 



The Davis Piano & Player Manufacturing 

 Company. Inc.. is a new concern at Birming- 

 ham. Ala. The company has $100,000 capital 

 stock and J. W. Davis is president. 



The French Broad Manufacturing Company of 

 Asheville, N. C, has contracted with R. M. Ford 

 of New York City for all the axe handles it 

 manufactures. These will be made from Moun- 

 tain hickory and are intended for export. This 

 concern. It is said, Is exporting handles made of 

 Mountain Ulcfeory to South America and that the 



